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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11

Breathing through the open mouth is
practised for the most part only by
''civilized' men. The aborigines of our
country, and savage tribes elsewhere, al
ways keep the mouth tightly closed and
breathe through the nostrils.
Nature is a wiser teacher than fashion,
for the primitive method of breathing is
the best one on every principle of
hygiene. There is danger of severe in
jury to the bronchial tubes and to the
delicate vessels of the lungs, in passing
from the warm air of house to an at
mosphere in the neighborhOod of zero, if
the air is taken directly into the lungs.
By passing it through the nostrils the
chill is removed, and the shock from the
sudden change escaped.
If the modern germ theory of the
origin Of infectious disease is true, breath
ing through the nostrils is one of nature S
safeguards. The hairs, which line the
entrance to the nostrils, may arrest the
germs floating in the air and prevent
their passage to the lungs, and conse-
quent absorption by the blood. Parents
ought to teach their children early to
breathe only through the nostrils. -
Youths Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
farm Copies.
THE EXPERIMENT STATION.

The legislature PASSED an act to es-
tablish an agricultural experiment station
in connection with the university and
State agricultural college at Burlington,
and appropriated $4,000 year for its
maintenance. The purpose of the station
is to make Investigations and experiments
on the nutrition of plants and vegetation,
with view to ascertain what fertilizers
are best suited to the various crops of
our State, and with reference to new
fodder plants, feeding stufls, the ravages
of noxious insects, the fostering of new
agricultural industries and the analyzing
of soils and fertilizers. Such stations have
proved of much value to the farmers in
|other States, and there is no reason to
doubt that such experiment here will be
equally advantageous. The university is
well equipped in its professor of agricul-
|ture, Professor W. W. Cooke, for Il di-
|rector of such scientific service.-Mes-
|senger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11

"What was the nature of the fare YOU
were able to procure on your way
through the country
Goat meat, Indian corn cake, bananas
and milk"
Odd you drink any brandy"
THE whole time, three and half
years. may have taken ten tablespoon
frlls of it.
"What kind of food did you use?"
Mutton. beef. goat meat. game,
sweet potatoes. pumpkins, bananas, pea
nuts, tea, coffee and milk.
"Was your appetite always good?'
''1es, save when in fever. | was nine
months in the widest parts of Africa
without symptom of disease. This good
fortune l attribute to the increase of
knowledge concerning health habits, the
indulgence in simple food, the bath and
judicious exercise
did you sleep well?''
Until toward the end. The great
sense of responsibility disquieted my
mind, and lost sixty-three pounds in
weight. When l started l weighed 100
pounds, when l returned was only III.
The nervous activity was such that ]
could not sleep-no, not even after had
paced for hours outside the camp, in the
hope of wooing it by fatigue. Herald of
Health
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
Fire Department Horses,

The life of a horse in the fire depart.
ment may last as long as if he were en-
ployed at any other kind of work. The
most trying period or time is the first
year. More department horses die dur
ing their first year than in any other.
The excitement kills them. They cannot
get accustomed to the hurry and hubbub,
the flames, the smoke and the general
uproar with which they are surrounded.
and they die. as men often die. from
fright or worry, superinduced by the
excitement. Some horses. though. last
for years. The work is not much; they
have rs rule only short runs, and the
periods of rest are longer than in the case
of horses employed for ordinary draft
purposes. If it were not for the excite
ment there would be no reason why they
shouldn't last longer in the fire depart
ment than elsewhere. -Assistant Fire
Chief in Globe-Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11

1t may be of interest to readers to
learn something of the process of landing
and discharging an immigrant at Castle
Garden. After the steamship has been
inspected the steerage passengers are
placed, with their baggage. on a barge
and taken direct to the garden. Here
the baggage is transferred to the baggage
room and the passengers are sent to the
rotunda, where they are registered. Then
they are given instructions in their re-
spective home tongues regarding the de-
parture of trains and such other matters
as directly affect them. A short time is
is now afforded those who wish to leave
at once for out of town to purchase their
tickets. This having been done, the re-
naming portion of the arrivals are sep
arated from the rest and the licensed
boarding house keepers are allowed into
the rotunda to solicit business. Those
who engage board are then given a
chance to leave. Those who are expect
ing friends wait until call for them is
received, and others, who have no friends
nor any settled plans for the immediate
future, are allowed to remain in the
building over night These people sleep
on the floor of the rotunda upon their
own bedding. Those who are sick or
destitute are removed to the temporary
hospital to await transportation to Ward s
island, whence they are discharged to re-
main in the city or sent back to Europe
upon the return of the steamships which
brought them here, depending entirely
upon their ability to care for themselves
and avoid becoming public charges
Those immigrants who are able to care
for themselves, but want some sort of
employment and have no friends to Sc
cure it for them. are provided for by the
labor bureau. In speaking of the opera
tions of this department Mr.. Connolly
said that female immigrants are and al
ways have been at great premium.
He has large number of applicants for
servants in excess of the supply, About
100 ladies visit the bureau daily looking
for servants, besides great number Of
applications which come by mail from
every part of the Union. VII the men
employment is not always so easily OBJ
tanned, especially at this season of the
year, when outdoor work is not generally
engaged in. Still most of the immi-
grants are provided with places without
much difficulty. Last year the bureau
provided employment for over 10000
persOns-New York GraDhic
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
MUSlC'S EFFECT ON NERVES.
SLOW Music Exerts Calming influence.
How to Rouse the Spirits.

ftoW W mousse tne Splflts.
The fact remains that music does act
powerfully on the majority of nervous
systems, and there is reason to think that
the brain il not alone affected. For ex-
ample, the movement of the lower limbs,
both in dancing and in marching, are
distinctly influenced by music, indie
pendently of the consciousness. When
the brain at first participates in the ex-
element produced it may become en-
crossed with other matters, and rhythmical
muscular movements of the extremites,
and in a lesser degree of the trunk, will
be continued automatically in harmony
with the music.
Direct impressions on the cerebral CEN
ters are probably transmitted through
the auditory center. Thus monotonous
and slow music will exert a calming in
fluence, provided it be not too slow to he
in harmony with the nerve habit of the
individual as in that case it may irritate.
1t is also essential to the success of any
endeavor to bring the brain under con-
troll of music, that it should first arrest
the attention either by its power or sweet
ness, and then gradually conduct the
organism into harmony with itself. A
measured cadence of the sort likely to
calm the mind is more likely to augment
than to allav irritation, unless it begin
with powerful appeal to the brain in a
key which accords with that in which
the cerebrum is at the moment itself
working. This has not. perhaps, been
sufficiently well understood in some at
tempts which have been made. expert
mentally, to use music as remedial
measure.
SO with endeavors to rouse the spirit
by music, the opening needs to be plant
i've and in the key of melancholy which
harmonizes with the brain state of the
patient. The attention being arrested
and the cerebrum reached through the
auditory center, the key must be grad
ually changed and the time quicliened in
such manner as to change the brain state
No great progress will be made with the
employment of sound. and form and
color as remedial agents, powerful as
these agents really are, until we dismiss
the unscientific idea of mind" and
begin to regard the brain as an organ
which, like all other parts of the body
obeys physical laws and performs its
functions by purely physical processes
London Lancet.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
The Modern Cook Book Dinner.

The modern recipes for making cheap
dishes are framed upon the supposition
that you are to obtain the materials of
manufacture for nothing. They should
be written in this form: Go to the market
and beg beef bone from the butcher;
steal couple of parsnips and half a
dozen of potatoes out of the peddler's
cart; get your grocer to trust you for
half pound of rice; borrow from your
neighbor a cupful of flour; from another
neighbor bod of coal; put your bone
into a quart of water and let it stew
slowly; slice your potatoes and parsnips;
get AN onion somewhere and slice it also;
put these in with the bone stew two
hours and add your flour; simmer twenty
minutes and serve. This dinner will sup
ply father and mother and twelve chill
dren, and there will be enough left to feed
four tramps. Cost, one-hundredth part
of cent for match to start fire. Who
would be poor?-Boston Courier.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
STAND BY THE FARM.

A correspondent of the B elvidere On.
D Apollo offers sound advice to farmers
1ns who contemplate selling their patri-
|pnies in order to embark in some kind
business which will bring them "out
the world" The view which the cor
pondent takes as to the rising value
American farm land is one which
hst commend itself to every observing
4 thoughtful mind. Pursuing this line
argument the writer says:
Nothing is surer of yielding an income
an the lands of America; and also that
size of the country cannot be greater,
lie it is almost absolutely certain that
hin the next twenty-five years our
Pulation of about sixty millions will
lble, or reach the enormous figures of
hundred and twenty millions. Val
of farms, and all real estate in fact.
Fance in price the world over just
but in proportion as population be-
mes dense. Thus in England to-day
)d farms sell for from three to four
ldred dollars per acre, and there. as
iermany and France, it is esteemed
best property to hold or descend to
rs, whether it nets two or three per
t, or more or less. Periodically, we
e depression in farming real estate.
ng to various causes-bad crops, or
redundant crops for several years,
depression an upward bound carries
prices of farms higher than ever
wn before. This fact has occurred
ess than four times in the past fifty
rs in all the good agricultural portions
ur Eastern States; and we are now
arently on the eve of another material
ince in farming real estate, which has
sold, in many cases, lower during
past two years than in any ten years
iously, Many of our capitalists are
ming to look around to see where
can invest so as to net three or four
ore than government bonds nett, and
at the same time the advance in
e due to the great increase of popu-
(n.
The four million farm owners, and
our million lot owners of America,
|o-day the best off of any body of
of the same number on this planet
IRIS, and they hold the fort against
species of anarchy in our land. Our
ce to one and all is to keep the old
estead when you can, and to those
are toiling and saving also, get bit
rec soil that you can call your own
rly as you can"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
How Tunis Jewesses Dress.

The costume of the Jewesses of Tunis
is striking and peculiar. The first time l
saw one standing at the door of the house
thought she had just got up and had
forgotten to dress herself before appear
ing in public. They wear tight, short
chemises, reaching only to the hips;
wooden sandals. fastened to the feet by a
single strap across the toes. and very
small, comical caps, called "kufias. "
The bottoms of their feet, the palms of
their hands and the tips of their fingers
are stained a yellowish brown with
henna, and their nails are stained black.
The kufia is of some bright color and
heavily embroidered with gold and silver.
The rest of their apparel is of silk and of
the brightest colors. When they go out
into the streets they sometimes put on a
haik and bright colOred greaves, with
gold or silver embroidery.
They are all Unfortunately fat, purposely
made so by a system of diet. They look
like ballet girls who have escaped from
the theatre in costume. The dress of the
little girls is the same, except that it is
all white. They are generally pretty,
and some of them, with regular features,
languishing black eyes, clear olive COM
pleXions and dark curling tresses hanging
over their neck and shoulders, are per-
feet beauties. They lose their beauty
and become coarse soon after the fatten-
ing process begins, which is usually at
the age of 12.-Boston Advertiser.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11

And yet, every year brings up its
group of ambitious young American
ladies. tenderly nurtured beings, who de-
sire to Ego on the stage" They gener-
ally come off again in year or two, and
conclude that plain sewing or school
teaching would be paradise as compared
to the life of ''lady actress
If she goes off with a distinguished
actress like Modjeska she is not allowed to
stop at the same hotel with her; that is
not etiquette. She may be allowed to
play some very inferior part, and be
Kissed for her pains for doing it badly.
She is put under the care of the old
woman who plays the part of The
Dowager' so elegantly. and finds that
her guardian is vulgar old person who
drinks too much But we will suppose
her to be philosophic and patient girl,
capable of living down all these disagree
ments of the first year; but she has
has learned, alas! that the play looks bet
ter before the footlights than it does be-
hind it; that she has stepped on the
wrong side of the illusion. 1t is not alone
that tinsel reigns instead of gold. or that
looking glasses are made of muslin.
IL Is HOt lne rouge OF lne pearl poWueT,
or the ugly company of ropes and pulleys,
dust and dirt everywhere: it is not alone
that she must rub her hands with chalk
at every movement, else they look black.
No. She learns that she has stepped into
another world whence all the fun of
private theatricals has vanished. She
learns that she has stepped into another
world where all that she learned in her
own world goes for nothing. Her re-
finement and education, her ladylike
air and pose, which she thought would
fit her for the portrayal of ladylike
characters. these are all worse than use
less She has been obliged to raise her
voice and discard her manner. for the
trainer has pronounced both Intellectual.
However. she has conquered her awk-
ward stage walk. and has learned that
the stage runs down hill. She has
reasoned that the primer of any language
is full of difficulties. She says to her
self that she will succeed. that it is
weak to be discouraged, that only
towards run away. Mrs John Sheldon
III New York Norld.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
Can the Magnet cure the Dumb ?


DIR. Charcot of the Salpetriere hospi-
tai has been continuing with considerable
success his experiments ON hysterc ard
hypnotic patients. Having satisfied him
self as TO he possibility of transferring
Paralysis. nervous contractions and cata-
le. tic systei. from one patient to an
other. he next set to work, in conjunction
with his able assistant, DR.. BabinsEi, to
apply the test to hysteric dumbness.
1t Is Il well known fact in medicine that
people afflicted with hysteric epilepsy sud-
denly become tongue tied and remain so
for many years A female patient
afflicted in this manner. but who was
otherwise of robust constitution, was
placed back to back with woman
who had been long time cataleptic.
By means of the magnet the dumbness
was transferred from one patient to the
other with the same regularity that
marked the experiments in paralysis
By continuing the experiments DIR.
Charcot hopes to be able to completely re-
store speech to the tongue tied patient
The same experiment was repeated with
male patients and with the same prom
ising results. 1t would, of course, be
premature to call DR.. Charcot's wonder
full studies prominently successful in
their immediate results as exemplified by
the strange experiments which have been
made at the Salpetriere, but no one can
doubt that like Claude Demands in an
other field, they open up vast vista in
pathological and physiological SCIENCE
London Telegram.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
deficiency of Polite Language.

"This eternal beg pardon intimation
that you have failed to hear, is beginning
to be tiresome, " growled an old gentle
man the other day. What is too
abrupt and 'how?' is excrable, and yet
some other form besides beg pardon
could DC used. Why not sometimes say
Il didn' hear you, or phase repeat that, ,
OF excuse my inattentionl Then. too, the
speaker sometimes talks in such an indis-
tinct. inarticulate mannei that he is the
one who ought to say beg pardon, and
not the patient listener. philadelphia
Call
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
PREPARING SUMNER SUPPLY OF
WOOD

All work which can as well be done
how as some months hence should be
done before the rush of spring work.
the summer supply of stove
wood can be better done now than i'll
: he spring or summer. The pieces can
be sledded up now, which is easier and
Epeedier than hauling them in a wagon.
|rhe temperature is more favorable to
[hopping, which is job for cold weather
Ind not for hot weather.
And now green wood can be cut, and
we'll seasoned when wanted; whereas, if
he supply is prepared only when needed,
ry, hard wood must be cut. or else the
housewife be subjected to the veXatons
If burning green wood. The smaller
branches are best prepared for the stove
BY using the AK exclusively; but the butts
nd the larger branches are best worked
Up by saving them into stove-wood
pngths with a cross-cut saw, and then
plitting them with the AK. Stove-wood
an be made very rapidly in this way.
light, soft wood, thoroughly seasoned,
the best summer stove-wood. 1t makes
quick, hot fire, and dies down quickly
ithout Goals, allowing the room to cool
tpidly after the meal is prepared. Save
he dense. hard wood for winter. White
m and cottonwood are the best of all
pr summer stove wood, and are scarcely
for anything else. The blocks of
ickory (usually), oak, etc, are best
,lit through the heart: but cottonwood
nd white elm must be stabbed Off"
orking toward the heart. Be careful
cut the wood of the proper length.
do so is as easy as to have half the
icks too long and the other half too
ort, and will save the housewife much
Xation. After the wood is prepared,
1T it under shelter. Only rich man
afford to be without wood house.
nose with ready money can build some
ing tasteful, but structure that will
swer every purpose can be built at
st not exceeding tiftee dollars.-Amer-
IN Agriculturist.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
An Old Cypress Tree.

The Oldest tree ON record in Europe is
asserted to be the cypress of Somma, in
Lombardy. Italy. This tree is believed
to have been in existence at the time of
Julius Caesar, forty-two years before
Christ, and is therefore 1,911 years old.
1t is 100 feet in height and 20 feet in
circumference at one foot from the
ground. Napoleon, when laying down
his plan for the great road over the Sim
plon, diverged from straight line to
avoid injuring this tree. Superior an
tiquity is claimed for the immense tree
in Calaveras county, Cal. This is sup
posed, from the number of concentric
circles in the trunk, to be 1865 years
old.-Chicago Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
Englishmen Ahead of Us.

English people of position surpass our
own in direct, practical forms of doing
good. The rector of a principal church
in the Isle of Wight suffers no Sunday
morning service to pass without boldly
reminding his titled hearers. after ser
mon. of the wide distress among the poor
at their gates, speaking of special cases
during the week, and urging the duty of
personal visitation. inquiry and aid, in
which, his parishiOners say, he follows
his own injunctions literally. The
Baroness Bemsen gives pleasing picture
of the prompt charity of her father in the
bad harvest of 1899, when even families
of wealth We're exhorted to consume as
little bread as possible at meals, and
brown bread was in fashion. He wrote
his brother at New York TO send him a
quantity of wheat flour, which he sold in
small quantities at cost to the poor,
standing in the servants hall and seeing
the applicants himself. Societies move
slowly, but there is nothing to prevent
any good man or woman tomorrow
setting up the sale of fuel and food at
cost, in small quantities, which would be
the salvation of the poor of this country
from one of their worst miseries.-New
York Mail and Express.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
Evidently an Exaggeration.

Among the begging letters recently re-
ceived at the office of benevolent society
was one running thus: "This unfortu-
nate young man is the only son of a
widow who died childless, and his earn
ings maintain his aged father and infant
brothers, whose sole support he is" The
secretary of the bureau wrote on the
margin of the epistle the following note:
"The circumstances of this case are evil
IDENTIFY exaggerated. The Argonaut.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11

The natives of Hindostan have long
had an instrument called the 'ravanas-
iron, at first constructed in rude man
ner out of hollow piece of sycamore
wood, but afterwards developed into a
practicable violin. The rudest of these
has two or three strings and il is played
with bow. This was undoubtedly the
origin of the violin. Its invention is
attributed by Hindoo tradition to King
Ravana, who reigned in Ceylon. Chicago
Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
size OF Mountain Lions.

Mountain lions attain prodigious size
Specimens are often killed measuring nine
feet from tip to tip and weighing not far
from goo to 800 pounds. Many more
measuring from ten to eleven feet, are
frequently basSed, and occasionally a
monster reaching twelve feet in the clear
and perhaps longer is brought down by
some lucky and daring hunter. The hide
of this animal makes IN excellent rug.
Scarcely a ranch in the whole Rocky
mountain region is without a mountain
lion sllin'bn The floor. One cattle ranch
on Powder river has every room carpeted
with handsome skins of this animal The
hide is a bright brown on the back and
rump, but fades away into soft white
brown towards the sides and becomes al
most pure white under the belly. The
tail is tipped with white and the head,
eyes, ears nose and features are an exact
reproduction of the domestic cat on a
larger scale. The feet and claws are like
those of Tom and llaria. Montana
cor. Philadelphia Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
The Bible In Rhyme.

A Madrid scholar, Senior Carulla, who
has been for many years at work on a
rhymed version of the Bible, has just
completed his task. The work contains
200, 900 verses.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-11
A Winged Rat,

A boat has been successfully propelled
on the Seine by means ofartificial wings
acting on the air and driven by rotating
wheel